TCM herbs for treating out of balance glucose levels and insulin resistance

A 2013 study was coordinated among 11 different research groups in China in 2013. Each research center performed the same tasks with 389 participants who were prediabetic. Half were given placebos. Not too nice for those enlisting in the study and hoping for a cure.

For one year, participants took either one Tianqi capsule, a combination of 10 TCM herbs used for treating out-of-balance glucose levels and insulin resistance, or one placebo pill before each meal.

After results were compensated statistically for age and gender, it was determined that the Tianqi pills reduced the risk of prediabetes becoming diabetes by 32.1 percent. In other words, the Tianqi herbal pills stalled the progress of diabetes.

That may not mean seem sufficiently significant, but this reduced risk statistic corresponds to pharmaceutical study results of major diabetes drugs mentioned earlier for prediabetes and/or diabetes type 2, but without side effects.

An earlier study conducted in Peking used 800 patients having glycemic control issues related to prediabetic and diabetic issues. They used a Xiaoke Pill, which contains several herbs for glycemic issues that TCM has used for 2,000 years, but added the pharmaceutical glibenclamide.

The herbs and glibenclamide were standardized to have the same mixtures in all the pills. Some of the study participants had been using metformin, and others had no prior pharmaceutical experience. The researchers also had some participants use glibenclamide alone. These different groups were differentiated for test purposes.

Overall, the herbal combination with glibenclamide, Xiaoke, provided better results than glibenclamide alone. And Xiaoke also greatly reduced glibenclamide's major side effect, hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar.

Concluding Opinion: Treating glycemic issues up to and including diabetes with good diet, exercise and TCM is more efficacious and safer than popping pills pushed by Big Pharma. Yes, Obamacare and other insurance plans won't cover TCM costs. But TCM costs much less than modern mainstream medicine.